The Mattei Affair is a 1972 film directed by
Francesco Rosi. It depicts the life and mysterious death of
Enrico Mattei, an Italian businessman who in the aftermath of
World War II managed to avoid the sale of the nascent Italian oil and hydrocarbon industry to US companies and developed them in the
Eni, a state-owned oil company which rivaled the '
seven sisters' for oil and gas deals in northern African and Middle Eastern countries.